Phase 2 of JISC-NEH Transatlantic Digitisation – Pre Announcement

December 4, 2008 @ 2:46 pm · Filed under Funding

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The JISC and the US’s National Endowment for the Humanities are pleased to announce they will be funding a second round of Transatlantic Digitisation grants.

This pre-announcement is being made so that potential applicants can start developing the necessary partnerships. The call will be issued in mid December, with a closing date of the beginning of March 2009.

Funding is available for projects starting from August 2009 with a project length of 18 months. All projects must be completed by March 2011.

As with before, applications will be sought in the following areas

* New digitisation projects and pilot projects
* Addition of important material to existing digitisation projects
* Development of infrastructure to support US-English digitisation work

The maximum each project will be able to apply for is £200k / $300k, to be split between the projects partners.

JISC and NEH have also been in discussion with other international funding bodies about developing a separate competition to encourage international teams to explore the possibilities of large scale text and data mining overlarge corpora of digitised content. A call for this will be released in the New Year.

Note: JISC has just released a whole raft of funding, for a whopping £10.65, for the Digital Libraries and e-Research fields. The call is on the JISC website.

2 Comments »

  1. Linda Kaye Said,

    January 13, 2009 @ 11:34 am

    Has the JISC-NEH Transatlantic call gone out yet? The pre-announcement indicated mid December with closing date of March but there seems no trace on the website.

    Many thanks,
    Linda

  2. Paola Marchionni Said,

    January 14, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

    Hi Linda, yes, the call went out and you can find it on the JISC web site at:

    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/12/grant1308.aspx

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